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Volume 3.
Lincolnton, North Carolina, Saturday, October 9, 1847.
Number 48.
PJU.VTED AND PUBLISHED 'WEEKLY, BY
THOJIAS J. KCCL.ES.
Terms. Two dollars Dei annum, navnhta
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in advance ; $2 50 if payment be delayed
. . months. A discount to clubs of 3 or more.
l' A Ivor I ;minc irin ho nnn!n;..,.u
D(,ed,iit $1 pel square (14 lines; for the first, and
vuia iui cdi,u Muuscijucui insertion.
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LinC0lll Business Directory
r.nurt ier,,a r
A. Hoke, clerk. EauitvWm. W.I.
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viiamson, clerk. County court Robi.
,y W.lli.msnn Urt. Vv I nJn.'
citor. H S Johnson. Rhpr.lT I. P
Rothrock, Town Constable.
Register, J. T. Alexander: Conniv
Surveyor, J. Z. Falls ; County Proces-
7 ' .n "r. irus.ee,
u UHM9UUI. j reas'jrer ruonc inula
nig, D. W. Schenck.
Committee of Finance J, T.Alex
ander, Bern. Sutuner. John F. Plnfer.
Building Committee J. Ramsour.P.
oumrnev.John b Pliifer. and H Cansler
sawyers Haywood V. Guion,niain
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main st. east, ad souare W. iJn.l.r
main st. east, ad square W. Lander.
main st. east, 2d square. V A McBee,
and W. Williamson, officesat McBee's
ouiio.ng, main s .d square, east.
srnysicians aimpsou x liobo, main
fit. UKCl. I) VV I 4
thecarv, main st." two door's east. E.
Caldwell, eat of Female Academv. Z.
Butt, office opposite Mc Lean's hotel,
,r "I ?VU ma'n SU WeS-
i.uufiis-uvuj o joniioon, north on
square, west cortmr, J. A Ramsour.
on square, north west corner. C. C.
fienuerson,on squarepost olhcej south
..u.i.ovu, uuii,niaiii si, .j uonrs wesi,
R E Johnson, on square,suuth west cor
tier main t. R Rein1, nn emmrp cnnth I
east corner. Hoke & Michal,on square.
Academies .Male, B. Sumner ; Fe-
mule under the charge of Mr Sumner
Hotels Mrs Moiz, s. w. corner of
main st. ana square w , siade, main
st. 2d c irnor fast of square. A. A.
McLe.-.n, 2d corner, west, on main st.
u. o joniisnn. nnrin on kfinarp. , i;.
Lrocr$ U.-rresnell, main st. east
t V D I.', i . ,u
west o snwarn. James Cobb, so east
corner f Main and Academv st.
Tailors Dailev & Seanle, main St.
1 dimr west l square. A Alexandei,
. M .
mi cnnorP O. h7 W. SKIP.
on snuare. s. bv w. side.
Watch Maker and Jeweller Chas
Schmidt, main st. 4 doors east.
Saddle and Harness Makers J.T.
Alexander, main st. 2d comer east of
square. H. M. & F. J. Jetton, on sq.,
north by west. J. Ad. Jetton, south
west on square.
Coach Factories Samuel Lander,
main si. east, on 2d square from Court
House. Abner McKoy, tnuin st. east,
on 3d sqtfSTe. S.V.Simpson, street
not t!i oi main, and n. w. of court house.
L-iaac Erwin, min st., west, on 2d sq.
A. Girur, on main st. east end.
Blacksmiths Jacob Rush, main st.
5th corner east of court house. M.
Jacobs, main St., east end. A. Detain,
main si. near east end. J. Bysauuer,
back st. north west of public square.
J. W. Pay sour, west end.
Cabinet Makers Thomas Dews dt
Son, main st. east, on 4th square.
Carpenters, 4fC. Daniel Shu ford,
main sf., east, 6th corner from square.
James Triplet'., mam st. M'Bee's build
ing. Isaac Houser.main st. west end.
Wells, Curry & Co. main st. east end.
Brick Masons Willis Peck, (and
plaisterer) main st. east, 4th corner from
square. Peter Ilouser, on east side of
street north of square.
Tin Plate Worker and Copper Smith
-Thos. R. Shuford, main st. east, on
south side ot 2d square.
Shoe Makers John Huggtns, on
back st. south west of square.
Tuiers-Paul Kistler, main-st. west
end J. Ramsour, back st., north east
of square. F & A. L Hoke, 3-4 mile
west of town, mam road.
Hat Manufactories John Cline. n.
from public square, 2 doors west side of
st. Jonnuutts & son,on square, south
side.
Printers T. J. Eccles, Courier of
fice, 5 doors north of court house, Isl'
and Ford road.
Book Binder F. A. Hoke, main st.
on 2d square west of court house.
Oil Mill Peter and J E Hoke, one
mile suoth west of town, York road.
Paper Factory G. & R. Hostel
er, 4 mites south-east ol court house.
Cotton Factory John F. Hoke &
L. D. Childs, 2 miles south of court
house.
Vesuvius Furnace, Graham's Forge,
Brevard's, and Johnson's Iron works
east.
IAmtKiln Daniel Shuford and olh
crs, 9 mileg -jouth.
Lelte. - for tnt above to be addressed
to me t,inconon Post OJiee.
THE SUITORS.
Wealth sought the bower of Beauir.
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IIIIIUO.'II UCIU,
3 Tnat fuon r u i.i. n .
Ju9t then LoTe HeaI,h and Daiy
Took up their hats to era.
Wealth such a cordial welcome met.
As made the others grieve.
u uiy ounii u ine g-ay coquette,
Lave, pouting, took French leave-
So Duty shunn'd the gay coquette,
He did
Love, pouJmg, took French leave.
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Lu Tim . h ,fr.nil - ,
me, ihe friend of Dalj.
jSext ca,led l s the fair;
JIe ,3'd hl'9 nand on Beamy, '
And left her in desoair.
Wealth vanish'd! Last went rosy Health
And she waa doornd t0 prove
That those who Duty slight for Wealth,
Can never hope for Love
Ah, no
Can never hope for Love.
A Sltlinleti Trin.f n A
if .rwHUt txu A 111(12,011.
" Plttsburg w days since, soundly
thrashed her husband for darin lo
leave her and her little ones and er.lut
for lhe
A ,i,t,e ebon3r aPP,ied t0 a iend of
ours a ew days affo, savs the S. C Mpr
cury, in the name of her mistress, for a
6n'Ple of cheese. The article was niv
.
an a few n""1 Darky re
turf,ed with, 'Missis soy berry good
cheese, and tank you for send tico more
sampler
Doniphan's regiment consisted of
10C0 men. When they returned home
each of them received $650 for his nav
. , ... sp
' ,a,,u " ucsiues,
so tna tne expedition cost in these Dar
ticulars STSOOO.three.fourths of a mil
1 heMJ have arr,vpd af York,
from April 2d tr Sept. 12th, one hun
drnd and twpniv il.iccnrt u.a.a
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nd twenty six immigrants from Europe,
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a number which would populate two z'
ties the size of Brooklyn.
A temperance society, on the tota
abstinence principle, connected with one
of the Roman Catholic Churches o
New York, has not only relieved the
dc6tiiuie in their society for the past
year, but have deposited S600 in bank
for future use.
Quite an excitement has pre ailed in
the lower part of the city of Baltimore,
on account of a suit of mans clothing
having been found saturated with blood
No clue has yet been found for solving
the mystery.
A small parly of Germans, who have
resided for .several years in St. Louis
have left for Northern Wisconsin, to
found thero a colony on the Socialist
principles of common property and in
terests. The Iowa Sentinel says that a colo
ny of Hollanders, amounting to about
1000, have purchased two entire town
ships in Marion country. They bring
their own mechanics and artizans with
them, and have selected the site for a
town. About 3000 more are expected
to join them by next spring; these are
the rigut kind of emigrants fur Iowa.
It is but reasonable to bear that acci
dent patiently which God sends, since
impatience does but entangle us, like
the fluttering of a bird in a net, but can
not at all ease our trouble, or prevent the
accident ; it must be run through, and
therefore it were better we compose our
selves to patient than to a troubled and
miserable suffering. Bishop Jeremy
Taylor.
We are happy to undei stand that
Major Gen William O. Butler of Ken
tucky, has so far recovered from the
wounds which he received at Monterey,
that he proposes immediately to join
the arrriv of Mexico.
Richard M. Johnson.
Richard Mentor Johnson will be sixty
seven years of age in the month of Octo
ber. He was born in what is Kentucky,
and what was Virginia. His father re.
sided in what was Virginia, and, in what
is now Pennsylvania. Brownsville of
Pennsylvania, was then Red -Stone, of
Virginia. In 1781 just before Colonel
Johnson was born, the f&ther removed
to Kentucky. The old man wao Hi.
tinguishet. for the times, ancf participa
ted in the proceedings of the Conven
tions of Kentucky, which framed and re
vised the State Constitution Like the
son, too, he was also renowned for his
bravery snd sk'ill,particularly in the fights
with the Indians. lie was also freouen
tly a member of the Legislature of his
State.
Colonel Johnson was educated for the
bar and a graduate of the University of
Lexington, which he entered at the aire
of sixteen. At the ago of twenty one,
he was admitted to the honors of the
court room the several studies of the
profession of the present day not bein
then required of the student. Two
years after he was elected to the Legis.
Iaiure, and, in two years more, when
not quite twenty-five years old, to the
Congress of the United States. In
1807, be took his seat in Congress,
and became a great favorite with the
Administration and of Mr Jefferson who
was then at the head. There wajj much
more unity of purpose in the Govern
ment then than now, and much less of
party spirits and sectional jealousy,
though the war of 1812 revived much of
the spirit that had died away with the
struggles between the elder Adims and
Jefferson. When, in June, 1812, war
w ueciareo, ool. Johnson delended
it Upon the floor of Congress, and by
volunteering his services to fight it out
as well as to speak it out. He was not
for words alone, like many of our Con
gressional heroes now-a-days who are
not-only most declamatory for war
themselves, but bitter in their cenuncia
tions of every man not as clamorous as
themselves. The month foliowin the
declaration of the war Col Janes John
son, received the commission of Lieut.
Col- in the same Regiment. The ranks
were promptly filled, and in tae spring
of 1813 by a hurried march of fifty
miles in one day, he came to the relief
of Fort Meigs then threatened by the
enemy.
The memorable battle of the Thames
where the Indians and the English were
the combined enemy, took place on the
5th of the following October. 1 In this
battle he fought with signal bravery and
success, receiving as many as nine balls
upon his bod , seven of which had given
him severe wounds and the scars of
which he now bears about his person.
His horse was shot from under him lit
eially covered with bullets. It was here
that Tecumseh was killed, and the Col.
claims, and Generally receives, the
honor of destroying that renowned chief
tain. Upon recovering partially from
his wounds, he received a sword from
the patriotic ladies of his noble State.
In the winter of '13 '14, he was a
gain in Congress, and afier the disrepu
table captute and more disgraceful burn
ing of the Capitol, he was a member of
the Committee who investigated the
causes of the disaster. His remedy
was a better organized militia; and at
the time he was preparing a plan for
the invasion of Canada, news of peace,
negotiated at Ghent, was received.which
put an end to the war.
Col Johnson continued in Congress
until 1818 and then voluntarily retired
and took a seat in the Legislature of his
State. At the close of this year he
was elected to fill a vacancy in the Sen
ate, & he remained for ten years. In
1824 he was the uncompromising friend
of Mr Clay for the Presidency, but pre
ferring Gen Jackson to Mr Adams, he
supported him in 1627, and subsequen
tly, under Gen Jackson's administration,
he was again elected to Congress. In
1837 he was elected Vice President of
the U. S. with Mr Van Buren as Presi
dent. Col Johnson is a simple and sinol
h
earted man, frank, generous and just,
with a heart in the ri.,hr nln- 0A o
mind far above the little tricks of mere
party politicians.
He spoke and voted for paying the
widow of Alexander Hamilton, for his
eminent revolutionary service during the
war, and for which he !.r.d not made a
ny charge against the government.
That great man served the nation in its
poverty from love he bore his country.
Designing to recommend the funding
system to Congiess, he meant to be a
bove all suspicion of wrong! While
alive he asked nothing, and when dead
his friends were for paying a debt due
from the Government to a brave, able
and honest man. Many have been the
occasions when Col. Johnson has come
forward in like manner to do an act of
justice to a political opponent, and once
1 remember, to pay an honest claim ol
Gales and Seaton .which was opposed by
nearly hia whole party. Col. Johnson
has "recently idfintifipd himself with
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many of the reformers of the dav, a-
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mong others with that proposing the
abolition of capital punishment. Not
long since, he presided at a meeting for
raising volunteers against Mexico, and
in all questions of peace or war he man
ifests a deep interest in .what belongs to
the welfare of the country. His friends
have not yet despaired of making him
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1 resident, and we believe that the verv
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active, though secret influencea of his
party are manifested to procure him
a nomination. Col Johnson, though a
fluent speaker, is not a pleasing one.
There is good sense and good leeimg m
what he says, but nothing ot what is
called oratory. His body is feeble, and
somewhat bent, his countenance de
notes the good temper of a mind wish
ing well to all men, and disposed to act
rightly (owards all men.
" An honest man he is, and hates the
slime
That sticks on fihhy deeds."
Flying Artillery.
late number of the Nashville Ban
ner contains the following communica
tion upon the flying artillery, which in
terests us not so much by lhe light it
throws upon this formidable weapon of
modern warfare, as by the interesting
historical reminiscences intermingled
with it:
In the Banner of the 27th, I notice
an account of the introduction of flying
artillery, as an arm in the military ser
vice ot the United States. The state,
ments there made are no doubt true; but
it is equally true that the late Gen W.
U. Davie, then ot Halifax, N. C. called
the attention of our Government to the
SMbjt-ct early in 1801, on his return
from France, were he had been minister.
The residence of Gen Davie, in Paris
was the Hoiel des Oiseans its front
looking en the " Champ de Mars"
where the troops that fought the famous
battle of Marengo were daily trained fat
least all the raw recruits, say 20,000)
under the direction of Napoleon and his
favorue Marshals, including Lannes,
Duroc, &c, &c. The drills and re
views were in the immediate vicinity,
and in front of Gen Davie's hotel, his
taste led him to notice attentively the
tactics and training of the troops, and
their splendid success induced him to
place a high estimate on the value of
the French system cf artillery.
Gen. Kosciusko in the war of our Re
volution, was an officer in Pulaski's
Legion, then forming a part of the ar
my of Gen. Lincoln; Col. Davie was
attached to the Bame command. In
1800, Kosciusko was an exile, and then
resided in the vicinity of Paris, and on
the arrival of the General, at the French
capital, called to see him when old re-
colections renewed ihoae feelings which
the remembrance of peril and sufferin
can alone produce.
Gen Davie expressing his admiration
of the French artillery. Kosciusko of.
fered to draw up for him a treatise on
flying artillery. This he did; aod when
finished sent it with a letter; the letter
was among the papers of the general at
his residence in Chester, S. C. where
he died in 1820, and is pr.bably in pos
session of his son, F. W. Davie, at this
time.
Gen Davie gave a copy of this trea
ties on artillery to the administration
of Mr Jefferson, and about the same
time a copy to General, then Cpt. Ma
comb, and at lhe time stationed at
Rocky Mount. South Carolina.
Flying Artillery as introduced into
the French service while Napoleon was
yet a subaltern; but on his obtaining
power he justly esrimated its value and
greatly increased that arm of the ser
vice. Some of your readers may not
recollect that Pulaski was a Polish no
bleman, who failing in a competition for
lhe throne, became, an exile, came to
this country early in the Revolution,
obtained a commission from Congress,
and joined the Southern army. Two
young Poles, both of noble birth, Ze
linski and Kosciusko, followed his for-
unes. Zel.nski deid in the hospital in
narieston, where Gen Davie was at
the time co-ifined from a wound received
at the battle of Slow, which afforded
him lhe melancholy satisfaction of shar
ing in the sad duties to one dear to him
for his noble qualities and Jong suffer-
ng. Kosciusk
I i uiui-u iu a umuu
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a,,a oecame the general of his country
men in an unsuccessful attempt to throw
offihe ynke of Russia. He subsequen
tly returned to France, and long in
dulged the thought that Poland would
bo rree by the aid of France. In this
be was disappointed, as he died not long
after the aides took Paris.
Pulaski fell in a charge of his Le
gion at the seige of Savannah; his thi?h
was shattered, if I remember aright, by
a grape shot. He died a few days after.
Excuse, sir, the garrulity of age, if
you are wearied at the length of this ar
tide, or find difficulty in reading my
nierogiypmcs. Saville.
The Right Course.
We published in yesterday's paper,
lhe short but eloquent and feeling ad-
dress of the Hon Henry Clay, to his as
sembled iriends in Philadelphia-and our
readers cannot have failed to notice par.
iicuiany the concluding sentence of that
address, in which Mr Clay said 'that
11 was the duty of every American to
give the government all his aid and in-
fluence, so as tc enable it. to bring about
peace between the iwo countries."
This is precisely the ground that we
have taken in relation to the war in
which the country is engaged, and in
reference to the duty of citizens of the
United States. Political differences and
domestic disputes should nol induce anv
one to throw obstacles in the way of a
vigorous prosecution of the war, so that
we may have peace speedily restored.
The great statesman and orator of the
West would sustain his connlry under all
circumstances; nor refuse to aid his bit
terest oponent in conducting the war to
a happy condusion.whatcver may be his
opinion of the policy of the measures
which led to it. His patriotism is 0f
the right stamp, for it extends beyond
party to embrace country. And we are
happy to say, that such are the senti.
ments andfeeling of th people general
ly. They want peace piedy and hon
orable peace and to attain that object
they will give their "aid & influence to
the administration" to prosecute the war
successfully Ball. Clipper.
Mrs Partington's Last "Our pros
pect? is very dark," said the baker, on
the occasion of a recent -ris In flr...-
"Yes," said Mrs Partington, "and so is
your bread; but," added lhat estimable
lady, looking ben jrantly on himlhrough
g her spectacles, "your loaves are light
enough. '